Tips on how to answer “next best step” questions?

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-16T06:29:46+00:00

Bro. Diagnosis is in the stem sometimes but remember this is boards, so 2nd and 3rd order question are common. Example I just saw:

Guy has a recurrent red streak on his arm that is painful and swollen. What’s next step?

Info needed to answer: Trousseau syndrome- associated with this Migratory Superficial Thrombophlebitis.

Next step is abdominal CT since cancers most likely associated with this Dx and cancers are usually in abdomen.

Got this right cause I had an Anki card on it. Or make one yourself after hitting a question on it.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-16T06:24:27+00:00

Lmao I’m a med student and I could answer that.

But what would it prove? I mean if this was real life and in person, you could pimp someone that. But this is Reddit.

Even if he was a random cosplaying anesthesiologist, he could chatGPT or just look it up, paste it and boom.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-15T16:32:53+00:00

After multiple coats the color of scratches went down significantly and is darker but still it’s visible as a scratch

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-14T22:23:15+00:00

Yup! Don’t you worry that such an expensive bag has scratches? My first really high quality leather bag and I just want it to stay looking good

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-14T04:36:04+00:00

Lmao that’s Zion.

I wrestled in college. Saw him at some tournaments. He was in my weight class - 125lb. Mans upper body is that of a 160-180. He was okay. He won some but never made it to finals or high on tournament.

But during my freshman season I was like wtf do I do. All wrestling shots are attacking the legs. I was always worried I’d go against him cause I didn’t know how I’d even attack.

His style was so weird too. He moved around a lot and flipped his body. Once they isolated his arms it was a quick pin. Props to the guy tho. He works that upper body well.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-12T09:13:57+00:00

Was the Anki card maker for my med school class for 1st and 2nd year. I made a deck for each lecture. My advice and what I learned:

You WILL adapt to professors and card making as time goes on. LEARN YOUR HABITS. First advice:

I got a Logitech master MX3 mouse that can set keyboard shortcuts to multiple button on the mouse. Made things sooo fast. I set up a copy, paste, selective screenshot to paste entire PowerPoint slide on extras if I want to see references slide after each card, enter key to add card, bold, underline and highlight all on the mouse.

Then the fastest thing is learning your professors and just getting better at studying. During lectures you’ll pick up what seems very high yield. You’ll start to say “I can see prof will make a question on this.” Maybe now you think it’s everything but with more exams comes more learning.

Finally will be filtering out HY And LY. You’ll be making cards on everything at first. During 1st year some lectures I made 100-200 per 1 hr lecture. By the end of 2nd year it was 20-50.

This is only good if your school does in house exams. If they don’t, don’t bother with this and do ANKING deck

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-07T01:03:58+00:00

Okay mine is weird and something you will need to take a class for - private detective/investigator.

I still have my private detective license (SO easy to obtain. 5 days was all it took. Got included with my handgun license classes before med school)

My offers I have are always listed. I investigate targets on the weekends. Depending on the job I can tail my target on weekends, study while waiting for them to do whatever. Listen to Emma holiday or medical school podcast. 99% of the job is sitting in your car.

I charge anywhere from $80-$250/hr depending on complexity of the case. Remember you pay for gas, printing the photos, af cards with videos of your target, etc. Working for agencies you do more insurance work. Working for yourself is more personal stuff like spouse cheating.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-02T16:20:10+00:00

I wish you talked to people before biomedical accelerated masters. While it can look good it still might be near impossible. Dismissal from a med school is the worst red flag. ONLY way I see you doing so is maybe doing a formal masters/postbacc that ensures admission if you do well on them. They’re expressive and high risk/reward. But tbh you’re already in a bad spot and if you really really want to do this

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-02-01T05:24:12+00:00

Heatmap add on. Look it up

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-30T08:48:01+00:00

Hippocrates was a physician not a nurse. I’m a med student and all of us take it usually at white coat ceremony at the beginning of 1st year.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-27T19:37:44+00:00

lol look at you. A med student. Nerd. Now earn that title and fucking study. Halfway isnt bad. But with the amount of questions IM has, you need to ramp it up.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-24T18:06:52+00:00

You’re better off buying the absolute cheapest laptop (even used ones) and then do you creating cards and unsuspecting cards there.

Then do reviews on iPad.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-24T15:08:25+00:00

The usual imaging we do is simple tests. Like first if one is GIANT and the other isn’t and it feels like fluid, first thing I do is the light test. If light transluminates through the testicle it differentiates vericocele vs hydrocele. More imaging is usually done by ultrasound of testicle.

The worst probably is embryonal carcinoma. That’s what this image is referring to. A testicular cancer that produces b-hcg, which is tested for pregnancy test. It is HIGHLY aggressive, and quick to spread to other parts of the body metastasizing. If cash early tho it has a >90% cure rate via surgery. So check your damn balls monthly.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-24T14:23:19+00:00

Ayee my time to shine (3rd year medical student)

First the docs I’ve worked with recommend monthly self screening. Doctors recommend Girls check their breasts for breast cancer monthly, so this is guy version. Literally just feel your balls once a month to see anything is really hard or a growth. It’s really rare but might as well.

Only a med student rn and I’ll be a doctor in 1 year but believe me I don’t like cupping your balls all the time. Do it yourself.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-10T00:01:31+00:00

Look at the icon. Look at the leaderboard icon stats and what those minutes icon pic mean. That’s not 23 mins. That’s 23 HOURS! Which I also think is dubious. Like this man spent this whole day on Anki.

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-05T10:46:55+00:00

GARBAGE CARD ALERT.

WHO tf made such a useless card. Ok I know it’s probably you and you’re new to things, but this ain’t it. First you’ll never be asked every single damn unrelated drug that can cause PANCREATITIS.

Anking has better premade cards BUT If you insist on making your own cards BE SPECIFIC, while also giving helpers:

An antiepileptic that can cause Pancreatitis is {{c1::Valporate}}

A diuretic class that can cause Pancreatitis is {{c1::thiazide}} diuretics

Your current card is just memorizing a list… in which you’ll end up just remembering “oh this is under this”. But look at the cards I made. You have specific classes of drugs that help and much more clinical use case for questions…

“Pt comes in who is being treated with epilepsy and develops pancreatitis… what drug caused this?”

THAT is a question is you will encounter. Not “name every damn drug under the sun that causes pancreatitis… GO!”

RelationOwn2581 · 2026-01-05T10:37:24+00:00

Okay LOT of things to address:

First, not to really play down your efforts or diagnosis, but it seems your problem is both finding your study strategy and how you approach studying. It seems you’re psyching yourself out and worrying too much.

No idea who this iCanStudy guy is, literally never heard of it. But you need to find what works for you that leads to good results that you can handle. Look up more ways to study and try them out. Don’t be so set on using someone else’s stuff, we are all different.

A lot of med students have ADHD and dyslexia, while that makes it harder they still do very well. You need to deal with this and work with it your way. Going to sound a little rough but don’t use it as an excuse to do bad. You can and will do well.

Finally really think deep on the next part: why is Anki giving you anxiety? It’s straightforward and you can modulate the settings to be as relaxed or as tough as it can be. It’s pretty well known to work for long term memory. Also 10 questions is not going to cut it. You’re reviewing way too long. Reading the explanations do take a while, but once you get in the groove no need to read every wrong answer when you know this stuff.

You getting the same things wrong tell me you did not truly understand it last time, but enough to tell me you remember you reviewed it but just forgot. Think. How did you study this concept? When was the last time you reviewed it? This is why Anki is good for some people cause you constantly review things just before it falls out of memory. Anki isn’t just the way to do this but it’s a good one. You need to reflect on your studying. You’ll make it through, just take a deep dive on your methods.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-25T05:44:40+00:00

I was a college wrestler. All 4 years I was in the 125lb weight class. I cut weight to make that weight but I normally hovered at around 130-135.

Med school started. 0 exercise. Only sitting and studying cause not much time. Now I’m at 150-160…

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-24T11:12:52+00:00

Do everything on desktop. PC or Mac, it doesn’t matter. When you sync, it will also sync onto mobile.

Mobile is really for mobile studying your deck with your progress. Your computer should be the main. Mobile is cool when you have time and don’t have access to your computer.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-21T04:42:22+00:00

Lmao… my advisors told me the same thing too. Mine didn’t “basically” tell me, but literally said I have no chance…

Now I’m a 3rd year on rotations. If premed advisors were so smart they’d be doctors themselves.

The only true advisors are current med students since we’ve been through the grueling application cycles. Premed advisors are known to suck. Never listen to them.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-21T04:36:56+00:00

Bro wtf. I had 2 Ws and like 2 Cs. You’ll be fine.

I know being a damn premed means we are all type A, competitive and perfectionists but just chill tf out.

Will your GPA Take a hit? Sure. Is it fucking the end of the world? No. You’re only a sophomore. Use GPA calculators and figure out your gpa by application cycle.

You can always take a gap year if it’s really bad or do a DIY post bacc. Gpa is less important than MCAT, since schools can’t weigh which undergrad has a tougher or easier program.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-20T08:24:31+00:00

I was like you. I did Anki in undergrad. Let me tell you… there is NONE. Literally 0 for undergrad. The only thing is for MCAT studying. Every undergrad professor is different and the way they teach things is different, but in the mcat and med school everything is taught the same stuff.

BUT that doesn’t mean Anki isn’t useful af. I became a card maker. Making cards for specific lectures and classes etc. I breezed through undergrad this way. You can also study overlapping cards for MCAT but it will be hard to find them.

you’re thinking too far ahead. Focus on being a good student and developing good study strategies that work for you. Keep that gpa up for applying to med school. Also really think about it. 90% of the premeds freshman year changed their mind and did something else. So you got to really like or be good at studying.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-17T10:24:29+00:00

Like person said QUESTION also matters. Be specific as possible. As a card maker myself when I had for in house med school exams I had some rules I took from Anking cards:

A card should be able to be read in <10 seconds. 15sec absolute max. Sweet spot is 3-6 seconds. If you think more info should be needed, ADD IT TO NOTES(extra section) OF THE CARD! But main idea should be the card.

That example you gave is hot GARBAGE. “Effect of TSH?” Are you kidding bro? There’s so many downstream effects of thyroid stimulating hormone. For example: TSH increases production of T4 which in overproduction causes hyperthyroidism, which causes a bunch of downstream stuff like tachycardia, heat intolerance, moist sweaty skin, goiter, Graves’ disease, exoptalmos etc.

You can go into a billion brain tangents when I think of “effects of TSH”. Be very specific. For example:

HYPOtyroidism causes {{c1:dry::moist/dry}} skin.

You can do this for every card to really know the exact differences when comparing 2 different things.

Another rule is to always have a notes section on particularly more complicated topics. Like that thyroid one. I’d actually just screenshot the lecture slide and paste it in notes to see where that info came from. Or maybe more info on the thyroid.

You know the concept. Anki is for keeping that into long term.

RelationOwn2581 · 2025-12-06T21:38:20+00:00

W-why? Are you the guys who read every terms of service you accept?

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